Council of Canadians

As a wave of new data centres threatens to reshape the Canadian landscape, join us for a timely conversation with Dr. Anne Pasek. The Trent University professor’s work challenges common assumptions about the carbon footprint of the internet, and she is the author of the widely shared zine  Getting Into Fights With Data Centers . Pasek draws our attention to the infrastructure that makes AI, but al...

The Council of Canadians and the Canadian Health Coalition are team up to host a webinar about the dangers that Bill 11 poses to public healthcare in Alberta and across the country, featuring health policy expert Andrew Longhurst, Friends of Medicare executive director Chris Gallaway and Ann Lagacé-Dowson of the Canadian Health Coalition. Andrew Longhurst is a senior researcher and political econo...

While many of us spent the summer relaxing with family (and trying not to choke on wildfire smoke), Canada’s corporate elite have been designing an all-out assault on workers, First Nations, migrants and the environment—and Mark Carney’s Liberals are getting ready to carry it out.  Quadrupling military spending and secretly sending arms to Israel. Slashing public services in what the Prime Ministe...